Anishinaabe-Niimi'iding: An Anishinaabe Ceremonial Dance

Anishinaabe-Niimi'iding: An Anishinaabe Ceremonial DanceAn essential guide to the sacred Big Drum ceremony of the Ojibwe, as told by a respected elder, explained in both the Ojibwe and English languages. Sometime in the last half of the nineteenth century, a group of Dakota presented the Ojibwe with the Big Drum and the ceremonies around it, as an act of peace and goodwill. The US government promptly outlawed the traditional, spiritual ceremony, along with all other Indigenous spiritual practices, in order

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